Wire - 22AWM vs. 22AWG

[whitebison66]

I recently was looking for 22AWG wire; Stew Mac has it, but I didn't want to buy a lifetime supply.

I bought some at Radio Shack, even though it's 22AWM, and solid.

Now, I assume this is not catastrophic, and that it will work just fine, but I just wanted to check...

Thanks in advance!

 

[mayfly]

Just using it for your guitar?  yea - you're fine.

 

[-CB-]

Nothing set in stone over 22 gauge vs 24 vs 28 vs...

The concept is - small enough to fit, large enough to work with, with and flexible enough to stand a bit of abuse

There are guitars out there wired with some REALLY thin wire.  The Gibson L6s was one, as it had a LOT of thin wires in that control cavity.  The Les Paul Recording was another.  Talk about a birds nest... jeeeze.

OTOH, a Tele from the 50's had moderately heavy wire as guitars go.  Not much of it, and short direct runs that fit where they needed to go.  Works!

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

It's technically just an extension of the pickup coils through the pots.  We've all seen how thin that wire is.  Like CB said, the size is just more a less for our big clumsy hands to work with.  Stranded is prefered to solid, other than what is provided on the caps.  It's rigidity stresses solder joints.

 

[dbw]

I like solid wire myself... it's easier to solder.  Probably doesn't make any difference in the end...

 

[blue313]

The best I can find is that AWM has more to do with the overall construction and the insulation type than the wire gauge itself.  It seems that with the numbering system it starts at 1000.  Anyone know what's meant by "22 AWM"

http://www.ul.com/wire/stylenumbers.pdf

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

AWM, dunno.  But AWG is Amreican Wire Gauge and refers to the size of the wire.  The insulation will be designated with another series of all caps letters like THHN, THWN, THHN-2 or something similar.